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tfilipiak10-Marble
10-Marble
October 6, 2017
Question

Redefine of Feature Shows Dialog Box Not Feature Dashboard

  • October 6, 2017
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Creo Parametric 4.0.

 

When editing a part model (that probably was created in an earlier version), a dialog box comes up while redefining the feature instead of a dashboard for some features.  How do I enure that dashboards always come up when redefining features?  The dialog boxes don't show all of the settings and also jump to collapsing menus!

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
October 6, 2017

Hi,

 

it's correct behavior. If you redefine old feature, Creo will show you old user interface.

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tfilipiak10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
October 9, 2017

You're kidding right?  Why wouldn't the software upgrade the part and use the new interface (dashboard).  The old style dialog box is so cryptic and cumbersome I can hardly make the changes I want.  And why should I have to know old systems?

 

Surely there is a way to change this behavior in Creo? 

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dschenken1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 9, 2017

The software can't upgrade certain features without risk that they would evaluate to a slightly different answer, potentially causing those features or features that depend on them to also be different or to fail.

 

They created entirely new ways of managing similar features that required entirely new data structures and created new interfaces that support those new data structures; they do not want to create an endlessly expanding pacakge of conversions between potential data structures or to rework interfaces for deprecated features to 'modernize' them.

 

Reliable re-use of models has been a very strong theme with PTC and this is a solid approach to maintaining that.

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